Hiraji

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=July 2019}} {{Short description|New Zealand-bred Thoroughbred racehorse}}

{{Infobox racehorse | horsename = Hiraji | image_name = | caption = | sire = Nizami | grandsire = Firdaussi | dam = Duvach | damsire = Foxbridge | sex = Gelding | foaled = 1943 | death_date = 1970 | country = New Zealand | colour = Grey | breeder = George Cobb | owner = F. W. Hughes | trainer = Jim McCurley | record = | earnings = | race = Melbourne Cup (1947) | awards= | updated = }}

'''Hiraji (NZ)''', (1943−1970), was a New Zealand-bred Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the Melbourne Cup.

Hiraji was a grey gelding sired by Nizami (Fr) out of Duvach by Foxbridge (GB). He was bred in 1943 at Duvach Lodge, Matamata, New Zealand.<ref name="Cavanough">Cavanough, Maurice, "The Melbourne Cup", Jack Pollard P/L, North Sydney, 1976</ref>

Hiraji was owned by F. W. Hughes and trained by J.W. McCurley. In the 1947 Melbourne Cup he carried a weight of 7-11 (109 pounds and was ridden by Jack Purtell.<ref name="Cavanough"/> Starting at odds of 12/1 in a field of 30 runners he won the cup by half a length from Fresh Boy.<ref name="century">{{cite book|last1=Morris| first1=Tony|last2=Randall|first2=John|title=A Century of Champions|publisher= Portway Press|year=1999|isbn=1-901570-15-0}}</ref>

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Category:1943 racehorse births Category:1970 racehorse deaths Category:Racehorses bred in New Zealand Category:Racehorses trained in New Zealand Category:Melbourne Cup winners Category:Sport in Cambridge, New Zealand Category:Thoroughbred family 8-k